HOME Syllabus contents: Course Description Grading Policy Required Readings Other Items	BLS 345, Fall 2001 Global Labor Markets
	Instructor: Dan Jacoby Office: UW1 330 Office Hours: By appointment e-mail: jacoby@u.washington.edu Phones: 425/352.5365 Class Meeting Times and Location:T, Th, 11 to 1:05 in UW2 240
	Course Description: GLOBAL LABOR MARKETS Increasingly, the idea that globalization changes our lives has become common currency. Yet, many of us are not entirely clear what globalization means. Given that migration, trade, war, and host of other phenomenon are anything but new, has anything really changed and, if so, what do these changes demand of us? Globalization is often made the culprit in the often noted domestic and international trends toward increasing inequality. In this course we theorize how globalization may or may alter our lives by affecting the markets in which we labor. How are we connected with workers across the world? In this class we consider the possibility of global citizenship with respect to workers across the world. What, if any, responsibilities does global citizenship impose. In pursuing this question we must: a: Consider the meanings and manifestations of globalization. b: Understand how market and non-market processes link workers and citizens around the world. c: Consider what possible ways citizens influence global labor markets. Thus, at its root this course is designed to provide necessary tools to analyze the performance of labor markets. Those tools are valued insofar as they inform us about potentials and pitfalls of social policies designed to improve the lives of Grading Policy In-class Assignments 20% Problem Sets (4@5%) 20% Quizes (2@15%) 30% Major Project 30%   <-- RETURN TO TOP     Required Texts Globaphobia, Confronting Fears about Open Trade, Gary Burtless, Robert Z Lawrence, Robert E. Litan, Robert J. Shapiro, Brookings Institute (1998) Disposable People, The New Slavery, Kevin Bales, University of California Press, (1998). Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions, Edited by Michael E. Gordon & Lowell Turner (ILR Press, 2000) The Immigration Reader, American in a Multidisciplinary Perspective; Edited by David Jacobsen, Blackwell Publishers (1998) Recommended: Wall Street Journal or New York Times                            <-- RETURN TO TOP
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